DW BUREAU / chandigarh Punjab recorded 249 fresh Covid cases that pushed the infection tally to 7,66,334 on Sunday, according to a medical bulletin. The death toll reached 17,794 after one person in Hoshiarpur district died due to the infection, the bulletin said. Of the fresh cases, 59 were reported from Mohali, 35 from Bathinda and 31 from Ludhiana, it said. There were 1,603 active COVID-19 cases in Punjab.With 133 more patients recuperating from the disease, the overall recoveries has reached 7,46,937, the bulletin said. Chandigarh reported 85 fresh COVID-19 cases that pushed its tally to 94,933 in the Union Territory. The death toll remained unchanged at 1,165, it said. With 20,528 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day, India's tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 4,37,50,599, while the active cases increased to 1,43,449, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday.The death toll climbed to 5,25,709 with 49 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The active cases comprise 0.33 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.47 per cent, the ministry said. An increase of 2,689 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours. The daily positivity rate was recorded at 5.23 per cent and the weekly positivity rate at 4.55 per cent, according to the ministry The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,30,81,441 while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.20 per cent. According to the ministry, 199.98 crore doses of Covid vaccine have been administered in the country so far under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive. India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 2020, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16. It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19. The country crossed the grim milestone of two crore on May 4 and three crore on June 23 last year. It crossed the four-crore mark on January 25 this year. The 49 new fatalities include 17 from Kerala, eight from Maharashtra, six from West Bengal, three each from Karnataka and Punjab, two each from Assam, Delhi, Jharkhand and one each from Bihar, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Pondicherry, Tripura and Uttarakhand. A total of 5,25,709 deaths have been reported so far in the country. (editor@dailyworld.in)